Patents by Inventor Paul Ames

Paul Ames has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automatic transfer and expansion of application-specific data for display at a website
    Patent number: 6963930
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer software products for publishing, or displaying, structured data at a website, such that information structures specified by application-specific data generated at a client can be transferred to a server to be automatically expanded into corresponding information structures displayable by a website. Thus, for example, a user may produce a structured document using a program such as Microsoft Project, and wish to have it displayed at a website for display to other members of a work group. According to the present invention, the user executes a web browser, accesses the system's webpage, and drags and drops an icon representing the application-specific structured data onto an Inbox Control displayed on the website. The system of the present invention converts the application-specific data into source-independent data and transfers the data to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Centric Software, Inc.
    Inventors: David Halpert, Paul Ames, Mario Ambrosi, Stephen Smith
  • Automatic transfer and expansion of application-specific data for display at a website
    Publication number: 20040225958
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer software products for publishing, or displaying, structured data at a website, such that information structures specified by application-specific data generated at a client can be transferred to a server to be automatically expanded into corresponding information structures displayable by a website. Thus, for example, a user may produce a structured document using a program such as Microsoft Project, and wish to have it displayed at a website for display to other members of a work group. According to the present invention, the user executes a web browser, accesses the system's webpage, and drags and drops an icon representing the application-specific structured data onto an Inbox Control displayed on the website. The system of the present invention converts the application-specific data into source-independent data and transfers the data to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: David Halpert, Paul Ames, Mario Ambrosi, Stephen Smith
  • Design tool for complex objects which links object structures of a design object in multiple design domains
    Patent number: 5664180
    Abstract: A method and apparatus displays a plurality of representations of an environment. The method includes the steps of (a) providing an object structure having a first branch of object data structures that defines a first domain of the environment, a second branch of object data structures that defines a second domain of the environment, both a first object data structure of the first branch and a second object data structure of the second branching defining a particular article in the environment; (b) displaying a first graphical image defined by the first object data structure; (c) changing a feature of the first object data structure; (d) automatically notifying the second object data structure; and (e) displaying a second graphical image defined by the second object data structure, the second graphical image providing an indication of a feature change of the first object data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Framework Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Halpert, Mario Ambrosi, Paul Ames, Vladimir Plsek, Mark Roth, James Sheldon